# bua
## Translingual
### Symbol

bua
* (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Buryat.

### See also

* Wiktionary's coverage of Buryat terms

## Bakumpai
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buaq.

### Noun

bua
* fruit

## Baoule
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

bua
* sheep

### References

* Jérémie Kouadio N'Guessan, Kouakou Kouame. Parlons baoulé: langue et culture de la Côte d’Ivoire. L’Harmattan, 2004. →ISBN

## Bikol Central
### Alternative forms

* buang

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /buˈʔa/ [buˈʔa]
* Hyphenation: bu‧a

### Adjective

bùa (intensified buahon, Basahan spelling ᜊᜓᜀ)
* crazy; insane
    Synonyms: kapay, loko, ribong

#### Derived terms

* bua-bua
* mabua
* makabua

## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈbu.ə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈbu.a]

### Etymology 1

Childish variant of buba (“pimple”), from Medieval Latin būbō (“bubo”), from Ancient Greek βουβών (boubṓn, “groin, swelling”).

#### Noun

bua f (plural bues)
* pimple
* (childish) badness

##### Derived terms

* bona bua
* mala bua

### Etymology 2

Alteration of gúa.

#### Noun

bua f (plural bues)
* (archaic, nautical, metrology) a unit of length used in measuring ships. Approximately the same as a yard, it was defined as 4 pams (“spans”)

### See also

* cana (“fathom”)
* pam (“span”)

### Further reading

* “bua” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “bua”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “bua” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “bua” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Dagbani
### Noun

bua
* goat

## Gagauz
### Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *buka.

### Noun

bua (definite accusative [please provide], plural [please provide])
* bull

## Garo
### Verb

bua
* to pierce

## Guinea-Bissau Creole
### Etymology

From Portuguese voar. Cognate with Kabuverdianu bua.

### Verb

bua
* to fly (in the sky)

## Irish
### Alternative forms

* buaidh (superseded)

### Etymology

From Old Irish búaid, from Proto-Celtic *boudi; compare Scottish Gaelic buaidh, Breton buz, Welsh budd.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bˠuə/
* (Aran) IPA: /bˠuː/

### Noun

bua m (genitive singular bua, nominative plural buanna)
* (sports, competition) victory, win
* talent, gift, faculty, forte (ability)
* merit
* destiny

#### Declension

bare forms
case
singular
plural
nominative
bua
buanna
vocative
a bhua
a bhuanna
genitive
bua
buanna
dative
bua
buanna
forms with the definite article
case
singular
plural
nominative
an bua
na buanna
genitive
an bhua
na mbuanna
dative
leis an mbua don bhua
leis na buanna :

#### Derived terms

* beir bua, beir bua agus beannacht
* ollbhua

### Verb

bua
* analytic present subjunctive of buaigh

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### References

* ↑ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 58

### Further reading

* Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 búaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
* Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “buaiḋ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 95
* Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “bua”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
* de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “bua”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
* “bua”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2025

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbu.a/
* Rhymes: -ua
* Hyphenation: bù‧a

### Noun

bua f (plural bue)
* (childish) pain, discomfort, boo-boo, owie

### Anagrams

* bau

## Kabuverdianu
### Etymology

From Portuguese voar.

### Verb

bua
* to fly (in the sky)

## Kokborok
### Etymology

Likely from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s/p-wa.

### Noun

bua
* teeth

### References

* Debbarma, Binoy (2001) “bua”, in Concise Kokborok-English-Bengali Dictionary‎, Language Wing, Education Department, TTAADC, →ISBN, page 27

## Latin
### Etymology

Onomatopoeia

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈbu.a/, [ˈbuä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈbu.a/, [ˈbuːä]

### Noun

bua f sg (genitive buae); first declension
* The sound made by infants when asking for their drink; baba.

#### Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

#### Related terms

* vinibua

#### See also

* papa
* pappa

### References

* “bua”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

## Lindu
### Noun

bua
* sarong; blanket

## Ngaju
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buaq.

### Noun

bua
* fruit

## Nias
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buaq, from Proto-Austronesian *buaq.

### Noun

bua (mutated form mbua)
* fruit

#### Derived terms

* mowua

### References

* Sundermann, Heinrich. 1905. Niassisch-deutsches Wörterbuch. Moers: Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen, p. 37.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Alternative forms

* bui (old spelling or dialectal)

### Noun

bua f
* definite singular of bu

## Puyuma
### Etymology

From Proto-Austronesian *buaq (compare Malay buah, Hawaiian hua).

### Noun

bua
* fruit

## Sotho
### Verb

bua
* to speak

## Swahili
### Pronunciation

* Audio (Kenya):(file)

### Noun

bua class V (plural mabua class VI)
* stalk (stem or main axis of a plant)

## Swedish
### Etymology

From bu +‎ -a.

### Verb

bua (present buar, preterite buade, supine buat, imperative bua)
* (transitive, intransitive) to boo

#### Derived terms

* utbuad

### References

* bua in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* bua in Svensk ordbok (SO)

## Ternate
### Etymology

Cognate with West Makian bual (“termite”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈbu.a]

### Noun

bua
* a termite

### References

* Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

## Tswana
### Etymology 1
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /búa/

#### Verb

bua
* to speak

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bua/

#### Verb

bua
* to skin an animal

## Uneapa
### Etymology

From Proto-Oceanic *puaq (“areca nut, fruit”) with irregular loss of *q and voicing, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buaq, from Proto-Austronesian *buaq.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bua/

### Noun

bua
* areca nut

### Further reading

* Johnston, R.L. 1982. "Proto-Kimbe and the New Guinea Oceanic hypothesis". In Halim, A., Carrington, L. and Wurm, S.A. editors. Papers from the Third International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics, Vol. 1: Currents in Oceanic, 59-95.